First Day Of Summer At Knott’s Berry Farm - Classic Theme Park Dark Rides / Ghost Town Alive & MORE
Knotts Berry Farm June 2023
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as a
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recording of this it is officially the
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first day of summer Wednesday June 21st
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2023 Knott's Berry Farm Buena Park
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directly behind me and in front of me
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Ken
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from theme park access who I've not seen
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in Forever in a long time probably since
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last haunt season yeah
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you ready to go to Knotts I am ready I
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have not had they don't call them annual
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passes here right they call them season
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passes yeah I haven't had a season pass
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here probably since I lived in Southern
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California
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you got yours
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so it's just is it an anniversary oh
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it's the 50th anniversary of scary farm
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coming up though 50th Anniversary Scary
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Farm is happening
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I am going to renew well not renew but
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I'm going to purchase a new
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season pass
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for Knott's Berry Farm
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happy first day of summer
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join me
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shally so Ken is a wealth of knowledge
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on not stuff it used to be a lake right
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here
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free side of the park it's a freestyle
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you had a big lake with pedal boats and
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they had a steam wheeler called the
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Cordelia cave
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all right in here all right in this
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parking lot here all the way up to
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Independence Hall now Independence Hall
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is just kind of sitting over there open
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but not a lot of people visit it
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however because it is in you know Prime
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summertime there are a lot of people
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heading in here the two biggest well a
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few big things I want to do the Train
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the log ride
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the Mine Train I'm gonna see ghost town
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and maybe The Sky Ride Stagecoach the
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stagecoach that's it I like I don't
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I don't want to do too many coasters
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today I think the coasters are going to
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be busy but we might get lucky with some
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of the non-coaster-ish stuff
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we'll see what happens there's a lot of
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people here holy cow
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okay I'm pretty excited Ghost Town alive
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is happening right now I didn't realize
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it
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Ghost Town alive is in full effect okay
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that that was unplanned so I'm excited
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to see some uh some actors
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Ghost Town alive and then you got not
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summer nights and not summer nights
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probably won't be around that long but
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someone has
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marked their territory there
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Buena Park Style
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that is a new mural for the 100th
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anniversary that was two years ago or a
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year ago
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quite a few familiar faces over there oh
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you know I need to also see Santa Joe
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today oh there's widdles
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it's pretty good over there
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there's a lot of the team members that
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I recognized because Walter and Cordelia
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not
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wow
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it was a little nod to the dinosaurs
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over there what was that called
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Kingdom of the dinosaurs now the new
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Barry tales and if you look closely at
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the wooden roller coaster right up top
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there that is about to drop in see if I
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can hear a scream or two listen very
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closely see if we can hear a scream
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faint spoon
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oh yeah I nearly forgot the Big Bear is
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in here inside the gift shop I also
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forgot to mention that a new area the
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new Fiesta Village has open you got the
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shirt over here so Fiesta Village has
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been re uh cleaned up re-themed and some
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additional areas have been added too so
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kind of excited to see the new Fiesta
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Village area which opened a couple weeks
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ago as well here's like a lot of new a
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lot of new merchandise through here as
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well again it's been a while
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since I've been here on a regular
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non-hot day I had heard and Ken just
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confirmed that they have redid Jaguar
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they added some new effects to it new
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things there's this nighttime show on it
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Productions and stuff all right so
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there's a lot of stuff that I make of
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may or may not cover today but you know
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I'm getting the pass so I can come back
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because Channel live merch oh yeah Ghost
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Town livestock yeah yeah I got some
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ghost town alive merch over here oh
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there's sad eye I think that's sad eye
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right there right yeah that's sad eye I
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wonder if he's still incarcerated over
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there I gotta make sure I say hi to him
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yes the history wall shown this many
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many times always like you have like a
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little timeline
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of the history of nuts
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and Knott's Berry Farm not starting back
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in Knott's Berry Place
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early 1910 1920.
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all right going to get my pass now as
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many people that are heading in the main
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entrance popping into the information
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area over here guest relations where I'm
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gonna get sign up for my annual pass I
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was going to do it online but you can
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also do it here at the park but
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sometimes the line stretches way out of
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here so I'm getting pretty lucky
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I purchased a little season pass it's
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not a full year
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it's begins now and ends on New Year's
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Eve so Charlie Brown was letting me know
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165 I did not get the parking that was
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an additional 85 but I also got a Scary
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Farm pass on this which I could use at
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any of the scary Farms throughout the
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haunt season I'm sure I'll probably go
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to one or two scary Farms so I am now a
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seasoned pass holder for the end of the
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year and I could also use the hot stuff
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for Scary Farm
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so I'm now a pass holder once again and
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a Scary Farm holder this is the first
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year they brought to the Scary Farm
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annual pass back the season pass back
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yeah they canceled it and now they've
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brought it back now it's back everybody
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cried about it so we won
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you won I'm gonna get some Starbucks and
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then we'll uh we'll head in
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and do some stuff
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it's good to be a pass holder again even
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though I live in Florida it's uh it's I
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think it just makes more sense because
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if you go if you buy one ticket
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it's like 50 more just to get the the AP
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or this the the SP the season pass the
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SP going past the star Fountain and I
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have
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piping hot caffeinated beverage oh this
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is cool life is better on the farm so
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you went with where'd you get to drink
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you got a cold beverage quad vente
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caramel macchiato it's a four shots
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that's a complex well you could be hyped
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up I want to try to do the stagecoach
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hopefully
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oh there we go we're gonna do the
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stagecoach and we're gonna do the Calico
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mod those are the two I definitely want
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to do and then hopefully Timber Mountain
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log ride and the training and the train
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it's all right here yeah all my favorite
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knots attractions three that you can't
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ride in oh is Rufus still around
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Rufus cast disappeared he just
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disappeared hopefully he's like in
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someone's you know someone has them as a
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pet they're taking care of Rufus
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in my mind Rufus is in a better place
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man Rufus I need to get that shirt
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though is that shirt for sale now I'm
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gonna buy it
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I gotta rep Rufus from here on out
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oh there it goes around the corner the
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sign says Adventure day
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or night
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day today's my day today's day not night
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and from another angle entering in the
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park the same coaster as it loops around
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and the dancing couple right there below
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the windmill oh so I got the tree over
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here and it looks like Ghost Town alive
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is in full effect
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the theming is Founders Day oh and here
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is the classic
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little sculpture over here I believe
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Claude Bell is the one that created
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created this famous for the Cabazon
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dinosaurs don't quote me on that I think
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it was I think it was claudeville it was
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Claude Bellman did this right
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Claude Bella did the sculptures
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the plaque has presented the employees
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at Knott's Berry Farm to Walter and
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Cordelia knot
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commemorating the modest beginning of an
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Enterprise they're creating of Ghost
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Town a historical landmark
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in Southern California
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classic
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I love this there's the assay off sa
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office hop Wing Lee
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blacksmith over there
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Deadwood ditch
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ornery is Critter in Three Counties
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how you doing
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I've been good how you doing well you're
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paying your respect so Deadwood huh I am
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old Deadwood well you know why he's
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buried there don't you I don't know well
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yeah we buried him there in the front of
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town to show people when you go to a new
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place and you act like a uh
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a Richard you know what'll happen to you
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Richard yeah that's what's gonna happen
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so don't be a Richard oh I think Justin
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actually didn't he have a thing over
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is it right there is it the r
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you can buy me over there
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the r for adventure
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is that it
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might be
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to be honest I don't know but I heard
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Justin's card how they are his what he
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made a uh he made a branding arm I don't
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know where his brand is maybe that is it
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they are ah it's over here it's got the
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r with the stars on it look at that
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that's kind of cool
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is this the dinner bell here it sure is
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20 bucks you could buy The Dinner Bell
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I have one of the dinner bell
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Ken was just alerting me again Ken has a
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wealth of knowledge about knots that
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they brought old Betsy back borax mine
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specialist cleaned up
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new tracks new tracks this was not yeah
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the the cards behind it that was not
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here originally from what I recall oh
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they have carts they were a little bit
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different they just decorated them up so
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here's old Betsy back in the day and now
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it's here at Knotts in fact a lot of
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these buildings Walter not took from the
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old west of the old desert areas and
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brought them and saved them here at
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Knotts all right satellite Joe
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is now in the town jail
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I have not seen sat hopefully he broke
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out
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hopefully he broke out
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I hope sad eyes not in here you in there
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sad eye sad eye
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I haven't seen you in the dog's age
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I thought you'd be escaped by now well
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that's what you get from thinking I
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slipped you that like that metal thing
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to like carve away These Bars and you
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didn't use it a few years ago I gave it
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to you you're still in here I don't know
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John about it you don't know no you seem
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a little sleepy today you sleepy
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all right you want me to bring you a
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coffee
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coffee yeah you do the coffee you look a
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little tired sad eye
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I mean they have any I got some right
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you want a little you want a little it's
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a Starbucks it's a new car bags yep
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Starbucks what the heck is this
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I hope you get out of there one day sad
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eye I'm rooting for you all right it's
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good to see you as always buddy thank
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you friend all right take care I'll see
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you next time I gotta I got a season
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pass now so I'll be in stopping in on
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occasion
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okay bye all right see you Saturday
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you seemed really really sadder than the
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usual he's always sad but he was like
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really sad today it's the first day of
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summer you're supposed to be a little
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have a little more pep in your stuff but
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he's just sitting there
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oh it was good to see sat on oh yeah the
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cattywampus
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what's the story on the cattywampus I
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know it's a daddy
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a jungle island
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right and then uh it's been in the park
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since and then uh one year it broke out
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it broke the railing and everything and
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disappeared and they kept finding it all
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over the park and when it came back he
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came back with a baby oh that's the
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caddy wampus's uh Offspring right there
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oh you know what there was a hot one
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year at Scary Farm where the cattywampus
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was in the
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it's making noise
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oh
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I like the catty ones this is the
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haunted building yeah I didn't know that
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no
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okay I never knew this was a hot they
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consider this a haunted building
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cheers oh what the and then if you look
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way back the chair is moving by itself
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all kinds of things happen in this
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building
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like right now the T the coffee pots
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the coffee pot's moving on the stove
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yeah
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yeah oh you're right
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how did I not know this Ken a pepper's
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ghost a solid person oh yeah so solid
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person and then you pull back and it's
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now look oh
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oh wow
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there's a turn back it turns back into a
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cowboy yeah
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look at that back into a skeleton yeah
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oh yeah I can't wait for scary fun this
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year pumpkin eater so pumpkins is not
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coming back dark ride's not coming back
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oh that's from pumpkin eater right there
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yeah wow that was in The Maze
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something about this area
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bugs
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pulling away from the station oh look
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the other Mine Train trains pulling up
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there too love it at 3 40. getting the
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wave here from the conductor
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pulling away a Rio Grande full steam
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train gotta love it there's a water
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tower there Denver and Rio Grande
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Western out of Omaha drop tower just
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went down
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love it
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so we missed the first train so we just
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gotta take a quick little stroll through
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the new
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Fiesta Village they're bringing it back
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to the old days Fiesta Village going
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along here
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it was good to be back in here it is now
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time for Jaguar
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Jaguar
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I think they repainted some of this
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through here
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all right
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about the board
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what's going on with Montezuma's Revenge
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over there I don't know they're supposed
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to be rebuilding it into a new imagine
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monitors again yeah the whole
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loop-de-loop's gone
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I was like these fist bumping animals
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right here perfect timing
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I hear the train are coming
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roll around the bend
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I just hope we don't get robbed on this
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thing oh check it out it is going you
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got the stagecoach going by I would like
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to do the stagecoach at some point
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boys and pepper streams of Fortune and
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the Pioneer scared of the West one could
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not look on hand for the dedication of
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this Railroad and his Traditions has
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been maintained every day since
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a lot of old Cowboys laid to rest down
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there
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I'm sure a Pony Express is running today
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a Pony Express is basically the
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precursor to Tron it's the same kind of
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setup as Tron light cycle runs same kind
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of kind of ride vehicle but you're on a
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horse instead of a life cycle so when
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they were announcing Tron at Magic
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Kingdom I was thinking that's just like
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Pony Express at Knotts and it kind of is
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but
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a different theming but the same kind of
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same kind of Technology
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there's the horses so it's not running
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today
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the old west version of Tron gold silver
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affordably cash we all got cash
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Ken's got some cash oh the car that's
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right the parking capsules so you
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couldn't bring cash in but you can't use
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it if you take venmo remember all my
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Robins that I'm off right now
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then the government comes out I have to
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throw me in jail just they want their
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cut and I prefer not to give it to you I
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understand completely I'd like to share
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we don't have any cash on it he said
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give us your cash
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how many pass
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yeah he's one of those little square
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things
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this is a hold up all right give me your
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credit card I remember back in the day
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2015 2016 when I used to come here all
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the time I used to always go on Coast
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Rider and I could fit on it pretty
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easily but now they've added these like
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new kind of shin guard things I can
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barely fit on that I've gained a little
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bit of weight since then but yeah it's
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like oh check out the
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one drop-in ride going on over there oh
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I'd like to do that too
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skyrod the K up top
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all right we are approaching
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one of the scary farm mazes that is
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returning this year
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esmer
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there's gonna be a lot of new mazes this
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year but there are some that are
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returning
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one of my favorite dark rides dare I say
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just as many animatronics and Pirates of
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the Caribbean has at Disneyland never
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officially counted all of them
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the train will go up there and then
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descend through the cavernous areas yeah
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I really do I mean this is coming yeah
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this year underground lake is one of
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hungry found all throughout these
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thank you
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Jane where's that Lance it's a cool room
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here at home
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how many animatronics there are
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so cute
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down the glory hole down here they call
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it the glory hole
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this is the very upper region some glory
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hole
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oh freaking cool
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you can almost smell it
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take it easy
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oh careful with that thanks
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yeah I love that I love that attraction
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so good
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so good the best dark rides there are
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there is
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okay it is definitely when you think of
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a dark ride I think a Calico Mine
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Company a mind train doesn't get much
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more dark ridish
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than that I'm making our way back over
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into ghost town and look at the
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little cigar store Indian that's over
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here now sometimes you'll see them
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though usually only have one packet this
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one has like a whole bushel of cigars
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here at the General Store
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dye store that's the grocer Provisions
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blinds and liquor store
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as well
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just love all the merchandise I'm
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definitely going to get a shirt on the
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way out there's a log ride shirt I think
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I used to have that at one point
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years ago
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you even got some sad eye merch look at
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that
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that's pretty good some magnets
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do it with some gold nuggets
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it's like a little piggy bank down there
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stage crutch piggy bank the sad uh he's
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got his own merch line now they're
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marketing him but they won't let him
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they won't let him out of jail
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oh yeah I nearly forgot that they have
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the bottle house here this house that is
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made completely out of bottles that's
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the name that you can see here you got
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the so these are full-size bottles that
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line the wall and then they put this
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like stucco type of
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item around it to create the wall itself
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hence the bottle home the bottle house
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oh yeah from the other side you get the
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light coming through that is pretty you
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know I don't think I've ever seen it
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from this side and when you move it
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looks like it just turned on and off
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yeah how cool is that look at that
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oh there's me hello there we are oh it's
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looping around coming around
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it's a fun one I've done that one before
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I'm not gonna be doing it today but look
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at that we're getting the good circle
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around what's that one called
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Silver Bullet Silver Bullet
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and now about to go up inside the sky
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cabin which is making its way down the
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side of this pillar here heading out
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going up to the very very top
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perspective of Buena Park California
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distance
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the fire wagon's coming through here
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he actually has a bit of a point it's a
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point there is no point
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in there I might have done the same I
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tried you know and if I could have
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happened have you better eating music
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I always find people in jail
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goes way out how do we say to culture
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okay we better leave him in jail
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it's now time for the stagecoach ride
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Stagecoach intro huh I always got the
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coaster going by and then the 1877 Stage
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Coach boards right here a little guide
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map here of the town of Calico so
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Goldie's daily and hourly room rights
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things you'll not see at another theme
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park
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what's going on in this for those hourly
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rates
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things that make you wonder
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you don't see there's too many theme
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parks that is for sure
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it's so cool from up here up high
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looking down
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sometimes it's hard to get on the top of
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this if it's really busy which it is we
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got lucky we got a top seed last time I
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was here wasn't able to get on top and
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then I was like people get a shape and a
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haircut from the train as it goes by
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probably not it will see a train coming
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back
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pirate ship type Rye going by there
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Fiesta Village
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we got civilization out here
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Calico Wild West Adventure
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that way
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horses and coasters where else can you
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see this
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how to see if the baby Rattlers are
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still over here
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gotta see if the baby Rattlers are over
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here they're very dangerous yeah I know
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there's some oh here they are
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baby Rattlers right here
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careful careful
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caution baby Rattlers
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they're still in there no there they are
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what's up oh they're just Rattlers
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oh Sam Andreas it was his fault it
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wasn't his fault
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clever
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very clever
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got some pennies and quarters down in
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you Martin
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who got one of his starts at Disneyland
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in the magic shop also got his start at
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Knotts The Birdcage and see if this
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photo
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still in here zoom in on his photo there
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Birds who have flown
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he is
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a wild and and crazy guy
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he worked at Disneyland and at Knotts it
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was entertainment okay we did quite a
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bit we did the Butterfield Stage Coach
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we did the ghost town in Calico
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Railroad and then we also did we didn't
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do the log ride it was a little bit too
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long ago we did the sky cabinet we did
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not do the log ride we did that another
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time it was pretty busy so we did the
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sky cabin right up here we did the Train
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the Calico
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Mine ride so what year was this
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what was this
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this is why you saw box Racers soapbox
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races yeah before before it was the
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motorcycle chase they did not have the
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roof assured in my size but I did get a
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sad Eye Joe sure I figure since he's
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never going to escape I might as well
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wrap a mess on my torso and the barrel
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is this 50 off look at this
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yes
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I get two of them got those delicious
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cookies
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not a bad deal we got four little bags
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of these for a buck 99.
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we're half off I would imagine they're
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probably not going to be sold anymore I
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seem to recall but it's kind of hard to
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remember my 2020 2021 brain
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but I feel like they were they were
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bigger bags than this but maybe not also
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over here is a flagpole that was given
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to Walter and Cordelia on their golden
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wedding anniversary
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there is no flag on it anymore however
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but it is
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still here lurking in the shrubs
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Ghost Rider
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off in the distance I've never noticed
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this before
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I mean even if you put a flag on it now
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you wouldn't be able to see the flag
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with these trees around it
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just above it
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and that's gonna do it for today I'm now
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a pass holder season Passover not not an
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annual Passover doesn't go
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from point A 2023 to point B 2024 it
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just goes through New Year's another
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season pass holder and I am a not scary
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farm
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pass holder as well whenever that kicks
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off they have not announced an opening
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date yet but some heavy rumors kind of
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floating around
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thanks for visiting
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it's good to be here and thanks for
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watching for those who are tuning in
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I appreciate it I'll see the next video
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the Vlog is
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over